Strategies for Sustaining Inclusive Practices:

1. Strategies for Sustaining Inclusive Practices: Lessons Learned from State and Community SpecialQuest Teams Welcome! • Please Dial: 888-387-8686 • Enter Pin: 1686167 and press # • Problems with the conference call line? Dial the number provided again.  We recommend using a landline for improved reception.  • For international calls dial 001-303-928-3281.

2. Strategies for Sustaining Inclusive Practices: Lessons Learned from State and Community SpecialQuest Teams Welcome to Strategies for Sustaining Inclusive Practices: Lessons Learned from State and Community SpecialQuest Teams. Kathy Whaley NECTAC

3. Outcome Participants will learn from the experiences of teams at the state and community levels that have utilized the SpecialQuest approach, materials, and resources to create and sustain effective early childhood inclusive practices.

4. Agenda • What is SpecialQuest? • Principles of Sustainability – lessons learned from state and community teams • Questions and Answers • Reflections

5. Presenters Linda Brekken Director, SpecialQuest Birth-Five Susan Stewart SpecialQuest Birth-Five Community of Practice & Curriculum Coordinator Pat Cameron Massachusetts’ SpecialQuest State Leadership Team Liaison and Section 619 Coordinator in the MA Department of Early Education and Care Pam Wildnauer Assistant Head Start and Early Head Start Director and a member of the Massachusetts Fall River Community Team Holly Wilcher Early Childhood Mental Health Educator and the Liaison for the Colorado SpecialQuest State Leadership Team Rosie Moreno Early Childhood Supervisor for the Eagle County Health and Human Services Department and a Member of the Eagle County Community Team in Colorado

6. Chat • Poll • Telephone • Email • Listening How to Participate located in lower right corner—ask questions throughout we will reveal at time of poll available at the end—we will have phone Q & A if you didn’t use chat or phone to ask a question It’s ok to just listen

7. How to Participate Windows Users Click the "Panels" tab & select reset to default. Mac Users Click the “Participant’s” tab.

8. What is SpecialQuest?

9. What is SpecialQuest?

10. The SpecialQuest Community

11. The PIP/PEP Cycle Adapted From Fixen & Blasé, NIRN http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~nirn/

12. Holly Wilcher Colorado’s State Leadership Team • Office of the Lt. Governor • Head Start State Collaboration Office • Director of the Division of Child Care • Colorado Department of Education • Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment • Colorado Part C System: Early Intervention Colorado • Higher Education • Head Start and Early Head Start programs • Colorado PEAK Parent Center • Parents • SQ B-5 Community Graduates and Ambassador • DU: Fisher Early Learning Center

13. Holly Wilcher Colorado’s State Leadership Team Our Vision Early childhood inclusion in Colorado will embody the values, policies, and practices that support the right of every infant and young child and his or her family, regardless of ability, to participate in a broad range of activities and contexts as full members of families, communities, and society. Adapted from Division of Early Childhood and National Association for the Education of Young Children joint position statement on Inclusion.

14. Holly Wilcher Colorado’s State Leadership Team SpecialQuest Colorado Progress • Informed RFP for Center for Best Practices on Early Childhood Social and Emotional Competence and Inclusion • SpecialQuest Approach adopted within college coursework • SpecialQuest Approach being embedded within required training for Part C personnel development: • Service Coordinators • Developmental Intervention Assistants/Para

15. Rosie Moreno Eagle County, Colorado – Community Team • Rural Community • School District Characteristics • Goals and Action Plans • Graduate Community

16. Rosie Moreno Eagle County, Colorado – Community Team SpecialQuest 2003-2007 Achievements

17. Pat Cameron Massachusetts State Leadership Team • Head Start Association • Head Start State Collaboration Office • Dept. of Public Health (Part C) • Dept. of Early Education and Care (619) • Dept. of Elem. & Secondary Ed (big B) • Higher Education • Head Start and child care programs • Parents

18. Pat Cameron Massachusetts State Leadership Team • Our Vision • Recognizing that all children • are born with possibilities, • families and children birth to five • will have access to high quality, • child- and family-centered • inclusive settings • in a seamless system of • coordinated supports and services.

19. Three demonstration sites • Citizens for Citizens Head Start • Holyoke Chicopee Springfield Head Start – Migrant Program • Cape Cod Child Development Program Six colleges/universities • UMass/Boston • Lesley University • North Shore Community College • Wachusett Community College • Bristol Community College • Cape Cod Community College

21. Pam Wildnauer Fall River, Massachusetts – Community Team • Southeast Region • Low-Income • Multi-cultural

22. Pam Wildnauer Citizens for Citizens, Inc. – Early Head Start/Head Start • Enrollment • Options • Locations • Staff

23. Pam Wildnauer 2007 SpecialQuest Graduate Team • Original Team • State Leadership Team Member • Current Team

24. Pam Wildnauer Fall River’s Vision To achieve and sustain a local, integrated and collaborative system between community providers, including families, that supports children birth to five in reaching their full potential.

25. Questions ? use the chat tool to ask a question

26. Principles of Sustainability • Change literature • Six principles • Principles + Strategies = Staying Power

27. Sustain the Quest • Principles of Sustainability • Clear direction and vision • Administrative support • Active involvement by all • Reciprocal community partnerships • Time and practice • Continuous Improvement

28. Sustainability Clear Direction and Vision

29. Sustainability Administrative Support

30. Sustainability Active Involvement by All

31. Sustainability Reciprocal Community Partnerships

32. Sustainability Time and Practice

33. Sustainability Continuous Improvement

34. Colorado’s Experience SpecialQuest Work within Early Childhood Colorado Framework • Colorado has adopted an Early Childhood Systems Building Framework • Office of the Lieutenant Governor staffs an Early Childhood Systems building team • Team membership from Office of the Lt. Governor ensures SpecialQuest is represented at state and local levels

35. Colorado’s Experience

36. Colorado’s Experience Principles of Sustainability • Vision • Administrative Support • Active Involvement by All • Reciprocal Community Partnerships • Time and Practice • Continuous Improvement

37. Questions for Colorado ? use the chat tool to ask a question

38. Massachusetts’ Experience Principles of Sustainability • Vision • Administrative Support • Active Involvement by All • Reciprocal Community Partnerships • Time and Practice • Continuous Improvement

39. Questions for Massachusetts ? use the chat tool to ask a question

40. Final Questions ? Press *7 to un-mute

41. Follow-up Questions?webinar@specialquest.org Follow-Up Materials www.specialquest.org/webinar

42. Additional Resources http://www.specialquest.org Web-based SpecialQuest Multimedia Training Library http://www.specialquestlibrary.org

43. Reflections Use the chat feature to share one thing that you heard on this call that you plan to carry forward into your work.

44. SpecialQuest Questions: webinar@specialquest.org Follow-up: www.specialquest.org/webinar NECTAC Previous Calls: www.nectac.org/webinars.asp#2009preschool Inclusion Institute: www.nectac.org/~meetings/inclusionmtg2009/splash.html